Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization (The Nineteenth Century Series)

Vranken, Thomas Lloyd

ISBN 10: 1032089857 / ISBN 13: 9781032089850

Published by Routledge, 2021

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization (The Nineteenth Century Series)
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1032089857
• ISBN 13: 9781032089850
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

As the nineteenth century came to an end, a number of voices within the British and American magazine industries pushed back against serialisation as the dominant publication mode, experimenting instead with less conventional magazine formats. This book explores these formats, focusing (in particular) on the ways in which the periodical press first published The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Return of Sherlock Holmes. What led magazines to publish excerpts from a forthcoming book, or an entire novel in a single issue, or a discontinuous short-story series? How did these experimental modes affect the act of reading? Drawing on a range of archival and other primary sources, Literary Experiments in Magazine Publishing: Beyond Serialization addresses these and other questions.

About the Author

Thomas Vranken is a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of British Columbia. His work on nineteenth-century periodicals, literature, and culture has appeared in journals such as PMLA, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, and Victorian Periodicals Review. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne.